A semi-internal balcony can work really well. This is on a bigger scale as it was for the whole flat, but was a lovely space to use exactly for coffee/wine (the sunset through it).
It's an old library on Battersea High St. It was split into 7 apartments and sold as shells so we all converted them in quite different styles. Here it is (after we sold it - we had a lot more colour)
A semi-internal balcony can work really well. This is on a bigger scale as it was for the whole flat, but was a lovely space to use exactly for coffee/wine (the sunset through it).